To brag on MN

i can't help it, my dd(3) has just growled said "i love you" for the first time ever! She has signed it before, but never ever said it. (Granted she followed it with smacking me in the face with her shoe, but I'm not complaining)

My DS2 first said Mummy at 3yrs 7months - after not having ever spoken before, and after a year of intensive speech therapy. Fast forward another 4 years...and I threatened to sellotape his mouth shut* earlier if he didn't stop talking for 2 minutes. You have just reminded me to stop, smell the roses, cast my mind back a few years, and be VERY thankful that he can talk at all. <<Makes mental note to give him an extra big hug tomorrow>>

Parents who counter-brag piss me off, but as the boy I am going to mention is not mine, not even blood-related, but DWs cousins GS (work it out for yourselves) Im going to allow myself this one. He is 2y 7m. DW and I sent to see his mother and she and DW dropped me a hint to take him out to the garden so they could talk. So I put his shoes and socks and jacket on, and he said, without prompting Thank you. You did that very well.